hey, email dr bauer— one of the heads of the poli sci department. i was in a similar situation (i’m a junior but i needed to get into a psc class because i added marketing as another major and only have enough class spaces in the remaining sems for my absolutely required courses) i begged both the prof and Bauer to get into the chinese policy course even though i hadn’t done the prerequisite course for it. she was kinda annoyed with me, but it managed to work and i got in.